[64studio-devel] HDD: Write permissions for ordinary

[Michael Pacey]

Forgot to say you should reboot for the permissions of the /dev/hdxxx
devices to be updated.


On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 20:03 +0000, Michael Pacey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using DeMuDi on this machine but this should apply to 64 Studio too.
> 
> The permissions of the device files are managed through the
> file /etc/udev/permissions.rules
> 
> My user account is mpacey and I am in the group mpacey as seen from the
> output of the id command:
> 
> uid=1000(mpacey) gid=1000(mpacey)
> groups=7(lp),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),106(camera),107(scanner),1000(mpacey)
> 
> 
> I have a FAT filesystem on /dev/hda3. To make the device file read/write
> to me, I added the following line to /etc/udev/permissions.rules:
> 
> KERNEL=="hda3",                                 GROUP="mpacey"
> 
> I added it near the end, so it overwrites the default GROUP applied to
> BLOCK devices (disk).
> 
> I created a mount point (as root): mkdir /mnt/hda3
> 
> To make it mountable by a normal user, I added the following
> to /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hda3       /mnt/hda3       vfat    noauto,defaults,user 0 0
> 
> To get this mounted automatically on startup, I changed this to:
> 
> /dev/hda3       /mnt/hda3       vfat    auto,defaults,user,uid=1000 0 0
> 
> 1000 is my UID, yours is probably 500, id will tell you.
> 
> So if you know the /dev/ names of your FAT32 filesystems, then make
> suitable mount points, add suitable lines in /etc/udev/permissions.rules
> and add suitable /etc/fstab entries like I have shown.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> --
> Michael
> 
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 19:56 +0100, R.Wolff wrote:
> > They're all Fat32 drives/partitions.
> > And like I said, I've tried several methods to gain ownership or at 
> > least write permissions for those drives.
> > For the moment being, I simply logon as root.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Raphael ;)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > guerrier schrieb:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > what is the format for your HDs?
> > > 
> > > If you are trying to write to ntfs, i suggest that you install Fuse
> > > and ntfs-3g.  Try to find a repo with the latest version of both
> > > applications.  you can find the latest ntfs-3g here ( deb
> > > http://www.vobcopy.org/mirror/elive/ elive main efl elive ).
> > > 
> > > My other suggest is to use chown to gain owner's access of the HD.
> > > this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown) explains how to use it
> > > and has examples.
> > > 
> > > Once you have the proper driver and permission, you can add the drive in 
> > > fstab.
> > > 
> > > guerrier
> > > 
> > >>  Message: 5
> > >> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:59:32 +0000
> > >> From: Daniel James < daniel at 64studio.com>
> > >> Subject: Re: [64studio-devel] HDD: Write permissions for ordinary
> > >>         user?
> > >> To: Quentin Harley < qharley at wbs.co.za>
> > >> Cc: 64-Studio <  64studio-devel at 64studio.com>
> > >> Message-ID: <45E2BD94.4050405 at 64studio.com>
> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> > >>
> > >> Hi Quentin, hi Raphael,
> > >>
> > >> > I had to change change the owner group of my secondary HDD to "audio".
> > >> >  From then on I had realtime full access to that HDD.
> > >>
> > >> That's one way to do it; another is to set the second hard disc as the
> > >> /home partition during the install.
> > >>
> > >> I appreciate the security model can be frustrating for a new user. The
> > >> distro is configured by default for a multi-user environment, where you
> > >> don't want to give write access to files outside of /home/username/ to
> > >> just anyone.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers!
> > >>
> > >> Daniel
> > > 
> > 
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